Does anyone have any idea how to approach this situation?
I am using spectacle, the kde screenshot taker. It has an option to go to the folder in which it stores screenshots. When you try this, it ends up trying opening it in deadbeef the music player!
I took a look at .config/mimeapps.list, which didn't help much. There was an entry for deadbeef, something to do with inodes. I deleted it, which did not change anything. Then I uninstalled deadbeef with the result it now goes to vlc!
I suppose I could go on deleting all the player applications... but then it would probably start trying to open the folder in something else equally useless.
I have noticed this behaviour before but forget exactly when. When answering yes to a prompt of 'open in file manager', what I got was an attempt to open the file in a (different) music player.
Does anyone know where this stuff is configured? This is Debian stable, up to date. Something has clearly gone wrong, but what?
The nice thing about spectacle is that it allows you to repeat the same screen area selection while taking a series of screenshots. So if for instance you are trying to do a tutorial showing how to edit a picture, you can just keep taking snaps of the small changes without having to redraw the whole area each time you take a shot.
Same thing with if you are reading a document in an app and want to take a shot of several pages one after the other.
Peter
Here is when it goes to vlc:
kdeinit5: opened connection to :0.0 kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so' from launcher. kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so' kdeinit5: Got EXT_EXEC '/usr/bin/vlc' from launcher. kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/bin/vlc' VLC media player 3.0.11 Vetinari (revision 3.0.11-0-gdc0c5ced72)
So what can be making it pick vlc?
On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 09:50:03 +0100 Peter Berrie peter.northerly@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone have any idea how to approach this situation?
I am using spectacle, the kde screenshot taker. It has an option to go to the folder in which it stores screenshots. When you try this, it ends up trying opening it in deadbeef the music player!
I took a look at .config/mimeapps.list, which didn't help much. There was an entry for deadbeef, something to do with inodes. I deleted it, which did not change anything. Then I uninstalled deadbeef with the result it now goes to vlc!
I suppose I could go on deleting all the player applications... but then it would probably start trying to open the folder in something else equally useless.
I have noticed this behaviour before but forget exactly when. When answering yes to a prompt of 'open in file manager', what I got was an attempt to open the file in a (different) music player.
Does anyone know where this stuff is configured? This is Debian stable, up to date. Something has clearly gone wrong, but what?
The nice thing about spectacle is that it allows you to repeat the same screen area selection while taking a series of screenshots. So if for instance you are trying to do a tutorial showing how to edit a picture, you can just keep taking snaps of the small changes without having to redraw the whole area each time you take a shot.
Same thing with if you are reading a document in an app and want to take a shot of several pages one after the other.
Peter
On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 at 10:32, Peter Berrie peter.northerly@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 09:50:03 +0100 Peter Berrie peter.northerly@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone have any idea how to approach this situation?
I am using spectacle, the kde screenshot taker. It has an option to go to the folder in which it stores screenshots. When you try this, it ends up trying opening it in deadbeef the music player!
Never had that problem. For me, I save the screenshots in ~/Downloads/ and if I press on the button to take me to the folder, it opens ~/Downloads/
Perhaps it opens the last place you saved into? Try saving a screenshot in the folder location you want to, then close and re-open Spectacle, and then press on the button to see folder. See if that opens the folder where you saved the screenshot.
Thanks, Srdjan
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